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To: Blazejay who wrote (2770)	6/19/1999 3:08:00 AM
From: Diamondhead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Can you give me a link for this? IDTC via its subsidiary(as soon to be IPO) is working on voice chat with AOL. They have an arrangement with Yahoo!. Is Net2phone/IDTC the provider behind it? Kevin

To: Blazejay who wrote (2770)	6/19/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

Hello Blazejoy, > I notice now that Yahoo has voice-enabled chatting. Does anyone > think this technology might be the actual beginning of widespread > "telephony" via the net? Yep ... it is going to keep growing quickly, IMHO, in particular verticle user demographics. The "gamers" are using it more and more (as a side note Microsoft just bought a small Canadian company with a product called BattleCom to address this segment ... probably integrate with NetMeeting ...) there is also a huge market to "chatters" and new portals like cuseemeworld.com I think of these verticle markets as the early "ham radio" users ... it's still kinda' techy and the quality isn't perfect, but ... > I could see this breaking out and becoming a standard, if the > technology were good. I haven't tried the Yahoo solution so I can't > vouch for how good it is, but something along those lines > definitely makes sense for the "next step" for the web. It's here > and it's now, and apparently already working (for free, even) over > on Yahoo. I've been using a lot of these technologies over the years ... I use NetMeeting on a weekly, if not daily, basis ... I'm going to go check it out and see how well it works ... > Now we just have to leave our computers on all the time and hook up > a phone receiver to one of the ports. Oh, and get the computers to > "ring" :) Ah, but this is where the intelligent services come into play. Don't think about the "call" going to a particular computer, or specific physical device. Think about the model where you have a "switchboard" or "virtual PBX" that has fully integrated voice/video mail services. Now, when I go to call you I actually contact the "vPBX" and it knows how to route the call to you ... so it might notify you on your laptop in some hotel in another country if that's where you are ... or even at a airport kiosk ... and if not, it records the message ... As for "ringing" the existing applications already do this ... ;-) > Jay Scott C. Lemon